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Proposal for a unified classification system and nomenclature of lagoviruses

Jacques Le Pendu 1, * Joana Abrantes 2 Stéphane Bertagnoli 3 Jean-Sébastien Guitton 4 Ghislaine Le Gall-Reculé 5 Ana Margarida Lopes 6 Stéphane Marchandeau 4 Fernando Alda 7 Tereza Almeida 2, 4 Paulo Celio Alves 2 Juan Barcena 8 Galina Burmakina 9 Esther Blanco 8 Carlos Calvete 10 Patrizia Cavadini 11 Brian Cooke 12 Kevin Dalton 13 Miguel Delibes Mateos 14 Wieslaw Deptula 15 John Sebastian Eden 16 Fang Wang 17 Catarina Ferreira 18 Paula Ferreira 19 Pilar Foronda 20 David Gonçalves 21, 2 Dolores Gavier-Widen 22 Robin Hall 23 Beata Hukowska-Szematowicz 24 Peter Kerr 12 John Kovaliski 25 Antonio Lavazza 26 Jackie Mahar 27, 16 Alexander Malogolovkin 9 Raquel Marques 19 Sara Marques 28 Aaron Martin-Alonso 29 Pedro Monterroso 3 Sacramento Moreno 30 Greg Mutze 25 Aleksija Neimanis 22 Paulina Niedzwiedzka-Rystwej 31 David Peacock 25 Francisco Parra 13 Mara Rocchi 32 Carlos Rouco 33 Nathalie Ruvoen-Clouet 1 Eliane Silva 28 Diogo Silvério 28 Tanja Strive 23 Gertrudes Thompson 2, 34 Beata Tokarz-Deptula 15 Pedro Esteves 35, 21, *
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1 CRCINA - Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie et Immunologie Nantes-Angers
2 Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO)
3 ENVT - Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse
4 ONCFS - Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage
5 ANSES - Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail
6 FOI - Swedish Defence Research Agency [Stockholm]
7 LSU - Louisiana State University
8 INIA-CISA - Centro de Investigacion en Sanidad Animal
9 National Research Institute of Veterinary Virology and Microbiology
10 Animal Production and Health Division
11 Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna (IZSLER)
12 Invasive Animals CRC and Institute of Applied Ecology, Room 3C44
13 Instituto Universitario de Biotecnología de Asturias
14 Departamento de Microbiologia, Facultad de Biologia
15 Department of Microbiology [Szczecin, Poland]
16 Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity
17 Institute of Veterinary Medicine
18 Department of Biology
19 ICBAS - Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar
20 University Institute of Tropical Diseases 65 and Public Health of the Canary Islands.
21 Departamento de Biologia [Porto, Portugal]
22 Department of Pathology and Wildlife Diseases
23 CSIRO - Health and Biosecurity [Canberra, ACT, Australia]
24 University of Szczecin
25 Primary Industries and Regions SA [Adelaide, SA, Australia]
26 Proteomic and Virology Unit
27 Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre [Bruce, ACT, Australia]
28 CIBIO-UP - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos
29 Dpt. Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Preventive Medicine & Public Health, Toxicology, Forensic Medicine and Parasitology.
30 Ethology and Biodiversity Conservation Department [Seville, Spain]
31 Department of Immunology [Szczecin, Poland]
32 MRI - Moredun Research Institute [Penicuik, UK]
33 Departamento de Zoología
34 Departamento de Clínicas Veterinárias
35 Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada em Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde [Gandra, Portugal]
Abstract : Lagoviruses belong to the Caliciviridae family. They were first recognized as highly pathogenic viruses of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and of the European brown hare (Lepus europaeus) that emerged in the 1970-1980s, namely, rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) and European brown hare syndrome virus (EBHSV), according to the host species from which they had been first detected. However, the diversity of lagoviruses has recently expanded to include new related viruses with varying pathogenicity, geographic distribution and host ranges. Together with the frequent recombination observed amongst circulating viruses, there is a clear need to establish precise guidelines for classifying and naming lagovirus strains. Therefore, here we propose a new nomenclature based on phylogenetic relationships. In this new nomenclature a single species of lagovirus would be recognized and called Lagovirus europaeus. The species would be divided into two genogroups that correspond to RHDV- and EBHSV-related viruses, respectively. Genogroups could be subdivided into genotypes, which could themselves be subdivided into phylogenetically well-supported variants. Based on available sequences, pairwise distance cutoffs have been defined, but with the accumulation of new sequences these cutoffs may need to be revised. We propose that an international working group could coordinate the nomenclature of lagoviruses and any proposals for revision.
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Jacques Le Pendu, Joana Abrantes, Stéphane Bertagnoli, Jean-Sébastien Guitton, Ghislaine Le Gall-Reculé, et al.. Proposal for a unified classification system and nomenclature of lagoviruses . Journal of General Virology, Microbiology Society, 2017, Epub ahead of print. ⟨inserm-01563782⟩

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